United States

• Monday, January 9th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

  Biden reaches El Paso to have first-hand impression of migration crisis

  

  US President Joseph Biden Sunday arrived in El Paso, Texas, from where he will cross into Mexico for a Summit with his local colleague Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

• Saturday, January 7th 2023 - 11:24 UTC

  Chapito Guzmán not to be deported for now

  

  A Mexican judge Friday agreed to Ovidio Guzmán's request not to be extradited to the United States.

• Saturday, January 7th 2023 - 07:03 UTC

  Uruguayan organic beef, processed in Brazil successfully shipped to US

  

  The Brazilian food processing corporation Marfrig announced that it started to process organic meat at its unit located in Hulha Negra, in Rio Grande do Sul, (Southern Brazil) with raw material coming from the company’s plant in Uruguay.

• Saturday, January 7th 2023 - 06:49 UTC

  Tourist arrivals in US during October increased 144,9% compared to 2021, and 76.8% of 2019 pre-Covid

  

  Data recently released by US National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) show that in October 2022 non-US resident international visitor arrival volume to the United States totaled 5,136,449, demonstrating a 144.9% increase compared to October 2021.

• Friday, January 6th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

  Alberto Fernández invited Biden, Xi Jinping over to Celac summit

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández has invited his US and Chinese colleagues over to the upcoming Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) to be held on Jan. 24 in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2023 - 21:45 UTC

  Chevron activities picking up pace in Venezuela

  

  The first shipment of Venezuelan crude oil to a US refinery in quite a while is about to set sail, it was reported in Caracas. Oil producer Chevron is to send the oil to its Pascagoula, Mississippi, refinery after obtaining a US license in 2022.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 20:09 UTC

  US: First transgender inmate slated for lethal injection

  

  Transgender inmate Amber McLaughlin is scheduled to become Tuesday the first person with that condition to be put to death by lethal injection after Missouri Governor Mike Parson (R) denied that last clemency request. She was convicted of killing her girlfriend in 2003.

• Saturday, December 31st 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  US TV icon Barbara Walters dies aged 93

  

  Iconic US TV news anchorwoman Barbara Walters has died Friday at the age of 93 at her New York residence, it was reported. Walters won several Emmy Awards over her 50-year career.

• Friday, December 30th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Buffalo in New York State emerges from “once in a generation storm”

  

  .The US city of Buffalo, upstate New York in Eire County emerged on Thursday out of several feet of snow. Buffalo was the epicenter of a major deadly freezing storm that swept across the United States and Canada killing some sixty people of which 37 in Eire County, according to official Mark Poloncarz.

• Friday, December 30th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Record sales of US beef to East Asia markets in volume and value

  

  United States beef exports to East Asia in 2022 broke the record reached last year, both in volume and value, according to a report by the US’s Department of Agriculture (USDA).